Originally Posted by Neapolitan

That reasoning doesn't work because civilians are the targets of suicide bombers, it isn't so much used against the military. It's more likely that terrorist would use improvised explosive devices (and not a suicide bomber) against the military. And it's not a West vs. islamic extremists problem, but an islamic extremists vs. anybody-in-the-world-not-with-them problem.

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